Lessons learned from vehicle collision accident of Dongguofenli Bridge: FE modeling and analysis

On May 5, 2019, a truck-tractor-trailer loaded with six coils of steel crashed into a pier column of the Dongguofenli Bridge located on the Yongjin Highway in Shengzhou, China, resulting in severe damage to the impacted pier column. Prior studies on heavy truck collision with bridge piers mainly based on finite element (FE) simulations. However, none of them examined the behavior of bridges under a real vehicle-bridge collision accident. To …